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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by kingkongrevenge on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:50AM (#324088)
bloglines is entirely C++. I remember seeing some interview where the guy said it was critical to beating their competitors. They were all busy trying to scale while bloglines already worked.
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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by tlrobinson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @04:14PM (#324302)
Interesting. That seems to be the exact opposite of pg's view that Lisp was one of Viaweb's main competitive advantages, because it allowed them to rapidly add new features.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by jgalvez on Sunday October 05, 2008 @08:36PM (#324483)
I think Lisp is reasonably fast, possibly as fast as C++.
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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by quasimojo on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:55AM (#324139)
and where are they now
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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by jgalvez on Sunday October 05, 2008 @12:21PM (#324156)
Well, I think the only major competitor to Bloglines these days is Google Reader which is in... C++ as well. Well, I would guess also probably a few bits of Python in between. Any googlers here? :)
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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by henning on Sunday October 05, 2008 @07:15PM (#324426)
How do you know it's C++ and not Java?
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